| From: | Alan Stevens |
| Date: | 6 May 2000 at 15:47:02 |
| Subject: | Re: Download speeds |
Hi Conor Kerr,
> I regularly get 9.2K a second download speeds.... from a 56K modem!
>
> I thought it was just the speed being reported wrongly but I've seen
> that kind of rate retained since for 3 minutes and more! That's a
> 2MB file downloading in 4 minutes!
>
> How can that be possible? I have a cable phone line, is the reason
> for the 56K limit that BT lines are just too crap, noisy and weak? I
> connect at 115,000 by the way. :)
I had the same speeds the other week using a pc & 56k to download bits of
the BBC Bitesize site for my daughter. We were downloading
for well over 90mins and most of the time the rate was showing 9k or
better. It was certainly the fastest I'd ever seen
Alan.
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